Emart: Kid-focused retail and experience space

Kid-Focused Sorting Criteria
We helped Emart develop the overall theme, service design, and space guidelines for the Toy Kingdom, Emart’s new retail and experience space. We organized the environment according to kids’ interests, as opposed to toy brands or character content. Various zones in different themes—such as Roof Rush and Play Factory—offer a wide range of experiences to children in different age groups. The Toy Kingdom’s boundless design layout fosters children’s autonomy in exploring their own interests. By creating a kid-centered environment—and curating products according to each stage of child development—this strategy ultimately led to the purchase of toys that parents feel will help their children grow.

Building child’s own play
We envisioned a place that helps children discover their own interests and respects their different tastes and curiosity, by letting them navigate their own paths. To this end, we designed a concept of analog future—a kind of world still being operated by analog methods and sensibility. Now understanding the basic principles of how the world we live in is built and works, kids create new kinds of play and make variations, as opposed to playing according to a script written by adults. As a result, this experience of creating something new is at once as entertaining as it is educational.